Breadth Quote by Joshua L. Goldberg

Abstract painters: redefine your perspectives. Think in terms of the whole, not simply its parts.

— Joshua L. Goldberg

Representational painters: loosen the grip of inflexibility! Abstract painters: tighten your hold on crafting your images! In both types of painting students need to…

— Joshua L. Goldberg

In some ways painters have been more important in my life than writers. Painters teach you how to see—a faculty that usually isn’t highly…

— Carolyn Kizer

My art is representational by choice…if the art of painting is to survive, it must describe and express people, their lives and times. It…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I'm not an Abstraction Expressionist, but I think dedication to paintings comes from an early interest in that work.

— Glenn Ligon

Every good composition is above all a work of abstraction. All good painters know this. But the painter cannot dispense with subjects altogether without…

— Diego Rivera

“Art in painting should consist only of the representation of things that are visible and tangible.”

— Gustave Courbet

I've never been a representational artist at all. Most artists have been representational. That's when you discover yourself.

— Carl Andre

Basically, an artist should be a mirror, or a reflection of society or his or her environment. What you see is what you can…

— Al Jourgensen

“There is no ready vocabulary to describe the ways in which artists become artists, no recognition that artists must learn to be who they…

— David Bayles

Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work…

— Jackson Pollock

Painters make paintings, but it takes a representative of the art-world to make a work of art.

— Richard Wollheim